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The concept of race is central to one of the most powerful ideological formations in history, Dominick LaCapra argues in his introduction to this volume, and understanding the effects of that ideology and its intricate relations with issues of class and gender is one of the most pressing challenges to contemporary modes of thought. The eleven essays comprising The Bounds of Race confront this challenge with insight, rigor, and imagination. The authors take on questions of language, genre, and politics with reference to African-American, Anglo-American, African, South African, Francophone North African, British, and Afro-Hispanic texts. Individual chapters discuss writings from an array of genres including homily, autobiography, the novel, children's literature, and political and scientific discourse. Taken together, the essays argue persuasively that the existing canon must be expanded, that the protocols of interpretation must be transformed to make a prominent place for such issues as race, and that the problem of interpretation cannot be posed in the absence of theoretically informed modes of historical investigation.
The Bounds of Race provides a subtle analysis of the variable role of racial ideologies and traces the interplay between hegemonic constraints and the strategies of resistance to them. Contributors: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Stephen Clingman, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sander L. Gilman, Michael Goldfield, Dominick LaCapra, Francoise Lionnet, Anne McClintock, Samia Mehrez, Satya P. Mohanty, Jose Piedra, Hortense J. Spillers, and Nancy Leys Stepan.
The concept of race is central to one of the most powerful ideological formations in history, Dominick LaCapra argues in his introduction to this volume, and understanding the effects of that ideology and its intricate relations with issues of class and gender is one of the most pressing challenges to contemporary modes of thought. The eleven essays comprising The Bounds of Race confront this challenge with insight, rigor, and imagination. The authors take on questions of language, genre, and politics with reference to African-American, Anglo-American, African, South African, Francophone North African, British, and Afro-Hispanic texts. Individual chapters discuss writings from an array of genres including homily, autobiography, the novel, children's literature, and political and scientific discourse. Taken together, the essays argue persuasively that the existing canon must be expanded, that the protocols of interpretation must be transformed to make a prominent place for such issues as race, and that the problem of interpretation cannot be posed in the absence of theoretically informed modes of historical investigation.
The Bounds of Race provides a subtle analysis of the variable role of racial ideologies and traces the interplay between hegemonic constraints and the strategies of resistance to them. Contributors: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Stephen Clingman, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sander L. Gilman, Michael Goldfield, Dominick LaCapra, Francoise Lionnet, Anne McClintock, Samia Mehrez, Satya P. Mohanty, Jose Piedra, Hortense J. Spillers, and Nancy Leys Stepan.
Introduction by Dominick LaCapra 1.The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and Afro-American Tradition by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2. Moving On Down the Line: Variations on the African-American Sermon by Hortense J. Spillers 3. Appropriating the Idioms of Science: The Rejection of Scientific Racism by Nancy Leys Stepan and Sander L. Gilman 4. The Color of Politics in the United States: White Supremacy as the Main Explanation for the Peculiarities of American Politics from Colonial Times to the Present by Michael Goldfield 5. Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism by Kwame Anthony Appiah 6. Autoethnography: The An-archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Road by Francoise Lionnet 7. "The Very House of Difference": Race, Gender, and the Politics of South African Women's Narrative in Poppie Nongena by Anne McClintock 8. Beyond the Limit: The Social Relations of Madness in Southern African Fiction by Stephen Clingman 9. The Subversive Poetics of Radical Bilingualism: Postcolonial Francophone North African Literature by Samia Mehrez 10. Literary Whiteness and the Afro-Hispanic Difference by Jose Piedra 11. Drawing the Color Line: Kipling and the Culture of Colonial Rule by Satya P. Mohanty Notes on Contributors Index
Dominick LaCapra is Professor Emeritus of History atCornell University. He is the author of many books, includingHistory, Literature, Critical Theory;History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; andHistory in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory, all from Cornell.
"At a time when any number of works devoted to the topics of race and the colonial are in circulation, a collection of essays-particularly one edited by Dominick LaCapra-is a welcome addition to the corpus. The volume serves to refine, extend, expand, and clarify current lines of discourse. All of the essays possess an energy and originality that makes them individually useful."-Houston A. Baker Jr., Vanderbilt University
"At a time when any number of works devoted to the topics of race and the colonial are in circulation, a collection of essays-particularly one edited by Dominick LaCapra-is a welcome addition to the corpus. The volume serves to refine, extend, expand, and clarify current lines of discourse. All of the essays possess an energy and originality that makes them individually useful."-Houston A. Baker Jr., Vanderbilt University
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